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Depeche Mode - Delta Machine. Much better than the last one. Not sure if better than Playing the Angel - it doesn't quite reach that one's heights but it's more consistent. I like all tracks (17 in the Deluxe edition) except one.

After KT Tunstall just announced her new album and QOTSA have just started teasing theirs, it occurs to me that this year I'm going to have 6 (SIX!!) new albums to purchase (in no particular order: QOTSA, KT Tunstall, Goldfrapp, Little Boots, The Pretty Reckless, Lissie) which is pretty damn exciting for me. And yet...

...this has been in my head all day. Not that that's a bad thing, mind.

New Tunstall and Goldfrapp this year too? There's a potential embarrassment of riches coming out this year. Flaming Lips, Kurt Vile, The National, British Sea Power, Camera Obscura, Neon Neon and more I've probably forgotten. Oh and Jurassic 5 have reformed and are touring with the original line up.

All I need for the icing on the cake is an official release date for the next Janelle Monae album.

This was (relatively) big news when it reached No. 2 in the UK charts in February so obviously it's not exactly fresh. However, I heard it for the first time in a club last night, and despite it being just a well polished beat I CAN'T GET THE FUCKING THING OUT OF MY HEAD. The rational part of my brain is nonplussed. The jump around in clubs part of my brain is OD-ing on those synths.

So I'm gonna try and infect some of you lot with it. And shoot the DJ that dropped it.

Bless their hearts, I'm loving the fact this is going to number 1 on a wave of 90s nostalgia. Poor Ant looks like he's absolutely knackered at the end of that routine! Terrible song of course (but a damn site better than their genuinely awful cover of Stepping Stone).

Clicking on related links brought back memories of SMTV live (which I still watched despite getting to be "too old" for that sort of thing as it was properly excellent. I'd forgotten just how much of a dick Dec was to kids during the Wonkey Donkey segment.